Don't you wish you could knit like this?

OK, well maybe you can, but I can't. I really want one of these lions. I don't know why (except that I can't have one and that makes me want one all the more). The photo of the Lion Brand yarn booth comes from the Craftzine site coverage of the CHA winter show that just finished up in California.

I didn't make it out there this time so I had to hunt up photos in the webosphere after I heard tales. And then I had to share. Click the link above or visit the LA blog  to find out more about the show.

Knit one. Over and over.

That's it. Knit one, over and over and over and over. I had originally planned to try to have this finished in a week or so. I don't believe I'm going to make it. That's OK. I made some progress this weekend, thanks to about 70 hours on my DVR (what can I say? I had to watch the entire Jim Cramer/Jon Stewart saga. And then there was a backlog of Trust Me to catch up with. It was important stuff.) And I made even more progress in putting my house to rights. I can actually walk, unimpeded, across my bedroom floor now. This is very helpful in the dark of night. With all the laundry done and my nonfunctioning treadmill wrassled out to the garage (my foot and my doorjambs will never be the same, but once I started, I just couldn't leave it there, you know? Hindsight says that it would have been smarter to wait for help. Hindsight has told me that before. I just never learn.), I have an amazingly spacious bedroom now.

Wonder how I can store either A) more books B) more yarn or C) both in the space that used to be occupied?

Why I don't have adventures...

I am 98% hermit. I don't know what the other 2% consists of, but I like to be at home. And this weekend it snowed so I was ready to knit. And after the epic battle to conquer second sock syndrome, I wanted an easy knit project. So...remember a long, long time ago when I learned to knit? I think my second project was the Mason Dixon Moderne Log Cabin baby blanket. All knitting. All the time. No purling required, just yarn and knitting and casting on/picking up and binding off. It doesn't get much simpler than that. And this time, my yarn choice is Cotton Ease which I love so much more than the cotton I used last time around. I used (mostly) yarn from my growing stash, so I'm also being economical. Now, let's just see if it grows up to be a real baby afghan someday.

Note to self: find your yarn needle or you are going to have one big mess on your hands.